Tuesday, February 11, 2014

This is the Way...

So, last week, at around 8:40
in the morning, I heard the familiar little ping on my phone and looked down to
see a text from my friend, Donna; our Sunday morning community group was
cancelled due to snow. As we were already en route, there was no way we
were turning around. I took the opportunity to sit in one of the upstairs
classrooms at church to spend some time alone in the Word. As I sat and
listened to the music from first service, I stopped and took a moment to
reflect on what's on the horizon for our family. My husband is preparing
to retire from active duty service. After more than 20 years of moving around serving our country's call, the Lord has called us to put down roots and settle our vagabond
family down in Moore. We are contemplating moving the children to Destiny
Christian School next year so they will be facing a new school with new
teachers, and I'm looking at doing some new things with my business.

Within the ladies ministry at
church, I'm getting involved in some exciting new avenues toward reaching into
our community as we start a sewing mission that will provide handmade items to
both local and global reaching organizations. I'm also looking to help
with a meals ministry to provide meals to families when they are facing
illness, family deaths, a new arrival, or they just need an extra hand.
Cooking and sewing...both things that I dearly love and that have the
potential to reach out and touch the community in such amazing new ways.
I'm even hoping to start a monthly women's brunch similar to a men's
breakfast that my husband and a couple of the other men in the church plan and
organize each month. I looked at a breakfast option. I really tried to
get into the idea of a breakfast, but I really just love eating breakfast food
more than I like being up at breakfast time...so, I think we'll do brunch for
the ladies. It's just a really exciting time for our lives.

This year, 2014, is my year to
live life on purpose. As I've been struggling with where I should be
headed and what to focus on with everything happening for us, one of our
family's life verses has been running through my head over and over, reminding
me that I don't need to know which way to turn. We just need to listen to Him
and open our hearts to all that He wants for us. When He is speaking into
your heart, He will pursue you to no end to help you hear what He is saying to
you. Even when you choose to ignore His voice, He will continue to speak
into your heart and guide you in the way that He has purposed for you.
There have been when doors have opened and closed, and to me, my world
has been turned upside down. There was
no reason in the world for any of it to be happening, and for a while, I sort
of drifted along wondering what on Earth was I going to do now. Eventually, though, that ever faithful and
ever loving voice was there again, reminding me to stop worrying because He has
this. He is with me and He knows the
way; my job is to follow Him and to listen when He calls. When you are lost and don't know which way to
turn, remember "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears
will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way; walk in it'" (Isaiah
30:21).